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30th March 2013

Hat: Ebay

Top: Primark

Dress: Topshop

When I was 17, I went to a fancy dress party as Alex from A Clockwork Orange. I wasn't a fan of hats but the bowler hat looked awesome on me. I ended up going to the local rock club for the first time that night, and started going every week. I had this notion that the hat softened my round face and made me look older, so I'd wear it every single week. I was fiercely protective of it (it's amazing how many drunk men want to wear a bowler hat!), and I became known as The Girl in the Hat.

Eventually, the plastic hat crumpled and split, and got lost in the confines of my youth. For years, I've coveted a real one but they're so expensive! Then the miraculous happened- The bowler hat came into fashion and cheap reproductions were all over the high street. I actually got this one on ebay, since it's cheaper on there.

I love my hat! I feel like Madeleine in this outfit, and I can dance around with it like this:

Plus, I can still pretend that I'm in A Clockwork Orange!Oh, and if you wanted to see the original outfit from 2005, here you go:

I'm so glad they came into fashion for you- when I watched a clockwork Orange the first time I feel in live with the bowler fortunately I only had to wait a year or so for an affordable one :)Beautiful look xxx